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Wintermuteai1 posted a goodbye message at VS and when I went to look at it again it had been deleted and his forums were still there.  Don't know if he changed his mind or what.

http://www.modthesims2.com/showpost.php?p=817055&postcount=43

What was that about Winter posting a PM?  Was that yours, Inge?  And I would have loved to see your response to him. :)  I guess he got his feelings hurt by whatever you said and decided to take his marbles and go home.

... If that guy were any more touchy he'd be an Elfwood artist. Eesh.

One minute he was threatening to kill me or something and the next he'd committed suicide (both in the context of Sims Community of course) I didn't reply to his PM at all.  The rest of the combustion was spontaneous.

Oh the drama!  ;D

Give this man credit for being honest!!

his forums are gone now Inge from varioussimmers

He apparently melted down even more than that before going. (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?topic=978.msg39658#msg39658)

Oh, and scroll up from that point as well.  Entertaining reading.

Phyllis

I've always gotten the vibe off him that he's like 15. He seems to be at that maturity level or below.

Same here (as I mentioned in another thread in retardo land). If he actually is signifigantly older than that then I feel sorry for him, otherwise it kind of goes with the age and maturity level although some of the stuff he's been saying to Inge lately is a bit much even for an immature 15 year old boy. :P

So Inge, is this because you questioned him about the mesh?

Apparently he was born in 1972.   It's not originally about the mesh.  He started attacking me in the CEP thread saying I was (a lot of swear words) arrogant because I made a door.   So I am afraid when the mesh business came up I couldn't resist PMing him to say "at least I didn't pretend the door was my own mesh"  Oops.

The reason he left VS was cos Rennie wouldn't let him ban me from there.  She likes me better on the 4-day moderation queue.

Sadly the attitude reminds me a great deal of my brother in-law, who will be 37 in a couple of months. :o And my mother in-law wonders why he hasn't married or given her grandchildren. ::) My husband and I wisely don't say a single word. We know any woman with an ounce of common sense would be more likely to kill my brother in-law than to marry him or conceive children with him.

I know a few people like your brother in law :P

Y'know, I could take offense if that, if it wasn't way too much work. I'm not much older than that, and neither I nor most of the people I hang out with could even come close to Wintermuteai's mastery of the art of making an idiot of himself. And to think, I thought that some of his stuff (his skins, mostly) was pretty nifty, way back in ye olden days of, what, late 2004, when the game had just come out and before the MTS2 exodus. Mostly because I like the book his name references, I thought, "Ooh! Fellow SF fan! Nifty!"

I mean, at least when Pescado leaves a site and makes a scene of himself, he does it well. He doesn't make himself look stupid, and he makes the other side look stupid without having to even do anything himself, because they handle it themselves.

ah Oddysey. I never would have guessed that you were fairly young. you handle yourself very well compared to some of the recent "supposedly adults " at Various simmers of late Wintermuteai being the one Im thinking of right now

Oh Christ, he's my age! That's sad.  :(

Oh Motoki you are that old? ;) Kidding, I feel older and older each time I come here.

Oh, Christ! You're younger than me!
I was born in 1970.
Waaah, I'm older than the peeing nanny!

I did not intentionally make the above rhyme.

LMAO, we'll have to get you an old farty avatar too. ;)

And yes Nectre I'm old :P

So many, old, old people!  Definitely uncool.  I'll have to report this to the coolness police at MTV.   (Sorry, having a flashback to a thread at the BBS).  I don't know why someone as young as I should hang with such ancient creatures  ;D

Phyllis

Edit: My age is in my profile.

Funny how people assume I'm a teenage boy when they see my avatar. I could not be less of a teenage boy.

I still can't believe these people are adults--and older than me, no less. Criminy.

Oh what are you complaining about! At least people don't think you are an 80 year old woman with a bladder control problem. ;)

OMFG, he's only several years younger than me.  ::)  Now that is truly sad.  What an ignoramus. 

I guess maturity is not one of his stronger traits.

Asshattery truly knows no age boundries.  :D

I had to read that a couple of times .... I kept saying, "Ash?  Ash-attery? Is that like an ashtray?"   :D

Maybe cuz you don't act your age?  Maybe cuz people don't take the time to read your posts to find out what kind of person you are.  I think anyone who reads your posts about Justin, your pixilated hottie, would know you aren't a teenage boy. :)

"1. asshat--One who has their head up their ass. Thus wearing their ass as a hat." urbandictionary.com

This is one of my all time favortie words ;D

yep Im middle aged so I guess I qualify as ancient  ;D

I love it!  I just don't think I'd ever seen it spelled out, and it looked odd.  Thanks, all, for giving me giggles :D

Phyllis

Ah, Phyllis, thank you - at least someone here from my generation.

I believe we need to be asking for the senior citizen's discount on membership - should get something in return for the gray hair and all.

I got the senior discount!  Just use the "Buy one for the price of two and get a second absolutely free" offer. 

Hook

PS.  I'm 56

erm, ok now I feel my age. A whopping 37! woot I am still a spring chicken!

The reggikkoness has been gracing the planet for 45 years. :)

It's so nice to see the young at heart crawling out of the woodwork  :D  (I'm 49, for those who don't want to bother with my profile.  Was just too shy to say it before).

Phyllis

Except those that were born in the early 70's were teens when MTV * actually was* cool.

I want my MTV!

Again I read that in a crotchety old lady voice!

Yeah . . . MTV with coolness police? MTV is in serious need of coolness police, but it has no grounds to be running said operation. I watched "Pimp My Ride" once, when I was on vacation and there was basically nothing else to do. Lame. I seriously need to get around to pitching my "Pimp My Mexican Restaurant" idea. They could start with "Tortilla Joe's" by telling them to switch to the authentic Spanish pronunciation of their name.

All this age revelation is shattering my world. I thought Motoki was older than me, but he is younger! Argh! No fair with the deceptive avatar pictures.
I really am a cat.

Ah, I missed that one, Hook. I'll make sure I sign up for a second membership for the price of two, so I get my fully deserved discount.

I'm 44 - for a few more days anyways (use it or lose it.) My husband is 50 so I get to laugh at him for the senile moments (and lose the excuse for mine.)

My husband is a year and 4 days younger than me. So every year between June 14 and June 18 he takes every opportunity to point out that I am, numerically, 2 years older than him. Grrrrrr.

so ok where do we get this guys mods from now. He does make some good stuff and was enjoying him on VS

Years of internet community experience has shown me that those who make a Grand Exit make an Even Grander Re-Entrance in short order.  Start counting and by the time you get to 50, the guy will be back.   ::)

Now, who's keeping track of the ages? I'm 44, clearly waiting for the social security check since I'm way older than the peeing nanny. :D

Don't take too much offense to it; I'm only 21 myself.

Same here my husband is 1 year and 3 months younger. By the way I'm 52 for 2 more months.

Wow. I never would have guessed. I just figured most pple were young on account of this being a game site and all. Except for JMP of course...I always knew he was old.

We are young! I'm only 44, for instance.  ;D

Video games have been around for years now. You don't just stop playing them when you're thirty.
I know I won't.

Yay! And another deceptive male avatar! I love it!
This is the one I almost used, but I don't want people worrying that I have a bladder obsession since almost every pic features a sim that has just wet his pants:
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y62/Brynne14/dangeroussituation.jpg)

Very dangerous situation for poor Josh. Watch those hedgeclippers, Uncle Gary!

As long as my hands can control a mouse and my eyes can see the monitor I will be playing games. I will be 58 in 4 months. :)

It does explain why very few people get my jokes tho - they just aren't sophisticated enough for my advanced sense of humor. ahem.


oooh, another excuse to derail the thread. Yeah, some of us were addicted beginning with Crystal Cave - and the moves came off the mainframe printed on the edges of punch cards. You really don't expect anyone to give up that long-lasting and bizarre an obsession, do you?

(and I walked uphill to school to - both ways ;))

I definately need a deceptive male avatar with a bladder control problem... I got bored with my green-skinned warty-nosed witch on another site and now I don't have one at all...

Edit: For irritating typos or something similar.

My teenage boys' friends are a little disbelieving when my kids tell them that I play games with them....come to think of it, that goes way back to the younger years when Dad & I sat on the floor with them to play all of the N64 titles.

So, your surprise doesn't surprise me.  The rest of the mothers in my neighborhood are most likely doing laundry, sewing on buttons and running the PTA while I'm Simming, etc. 

Suckers! :D 

So nice to find a place to share the interest, though, isn't it? I've found my PTA mom friends really aren't all that interested in hearing about Joe's latest adventure!

My Hubby thinks only kids play games like the Sims2 and expansion packs ;D

Yes it is nice. It's not something I usually bring up while waiting to pick up the kids from school, I'm sure the other moms would think I'm cracked. So far I've only been able to convert one friend over to the "dark side" and we love to chat about what we've done to our sims. Another friend is really into SimCity (3000 & 4), she says she doesn't have any more free time to try Sims2 (because she knows she'll get addicted) but I still try from time to time.

I'd bet there's a lot more of us 25+ (or ever 30+) than marketing realizes. I'm 37, I've been playing Sims since version one in 2000. I don't plan on stopping until they close the casket. ;) Hubby loves to make remarks about how "obsessed" I am but I think it's just because he'd like some time on the computer. We're window shopping for a lap top but it's going to have to wait for a while.

I can tell you this is true because I've done it! LOL!

Well at least the last couple of times I did it I didn't resurface on the same site. ;)

The ones who really end up leaving and never being heard from again are the ones who quietly fade away. Where the hell is Phedge? No one has heard from him in months and he never even said goodbye.

My best friend could care less about my Sims, but her daughters and I swap stories all the time. Her daughters are 9 and 13. 

You all are the only ones I can share my Sims obsession with.  My mom is sick of sims because she says they are too addictive (Bah!) and no one else I know in person plays the sims.  Like others, I hesitate to mention it to anyone for fear of people thinking I'm crazy.  I'm only 31, by the way, but I sure don't feel it.  I've never owned a Nintendo or anything like that.  We didn't even have a TV when I was growing up.  I got a computer in 1994 and started getting into video games then.  My ex-husband got the first Sims for me when I saw them talking about them on Tech TV, and I got all the expansion packs.  He ended up regretting it.  I was already on the computer all the time, and that didn't help, LOL.  We always had our own computers because both of us were such computer freaks we knew we could never share a computer.  We both liked having our stuff set up a certain way.  I don't think the Sims lead to our splitting up because there were LOTS of other issues.  That was just a symptom, and I used not only the Sims to escape, but the computer in general, the web, other games, etc.  We couldn't communicate.  Anyway, I lost interest in the Sims, but when Sims 2 came out, it renewed my obsession in a big way.  I never participated in Sims sites before except to download some hacks, but I came to the BBS looking for help with some issues in my game and found MTS2, and the rest is history. :)

Sounds familiar, although my husband hasn't given me the boot, yet. I dl'd a lot of things for sims 1 but never even considered participating in a forum. Until MTS2. And now I'm here.

I got my first computer in 2000 a HP pavillion model with windows 98 and a whopping 63mb of Ram LOL  my daughter got me hooked on the sims 1 which ironically that little computer handled all of the expansion packs with only minor slowing here and there. in 2003 I decided that the pavillion just wasnt meeting my needs anymore. so I conned hubby into buying the compaq I have now. it came with 256 mb of ram and 40 gb hard drive and sims 1 literaly screamed  for joy the games ran ultra fast on those specs a year later I got the base game  Sims 2 and  fell in love  uninstalled all my  sims 1 games. 3 months later I jumped my Ram to 512 mb and tommorow I will jump to 1024mb of ram. my next move will be to upgrade my hard drive to 200 gb I have already ordered it. I found MTS2 from a fansite link on the BBS in March 2005  where I discovered Pescado's hacks and a whole community of addicted Simmers just like me . I followed Pescado to Varoussimmers and then here.My Hubby complains about the amount of time I spend with my Sims and online but hasnt given me the boot yet.MTS2 was the first actual forum I joined.I dont count the BBS as I only went there to register my games ;)

ditto, ditto, ditto, same, same, same.

48 years young, addicted to sims, family think I'm mad, I'll play till I drop.

Having a binge on Startopia this week, vastly underrated game, should have been a huge hit.

About Sim players ages... I am only 20, which is quite young compared to many of the ages of people here. Of course, I have no kids, no husband/wife, and no full-time job (I have a part-time job, because I go to college as well). Hell, I am still a kid in my mind.

Ah, you're a kid in most of our minds, too, I'm sure!  ;)

Not even through IRC??  :D

Hook

No, but that's how we met. :)  We did talk through ICQ a bit after we got married, but we quit using it.  (We did talk a lot with "Stickies" a free sticky note program that lets you send sticky notes over the network, but then it later became arguments over the network.  :(  I still have some I saved for future reference.)  But that's why I thought it was strange when he installed ICQ again...it was to talk to his new girlfriend although he tried to tell me otherwise...but I am sure that's more than you wanted to know. :)

So true.  It definitely wins the prize for "best game rescued from the bargin bin".  I love that all the little aliens have their own ways of doing things -- making a lake on the Environmental Deck and watching them swim is just hilarious.  And if the missions don't appeal, Sandbox play is always fun.

It's quite useful information, actually.  Especially for those who think about getting together with someone they met online.  In a matrimonial sort of way.

In-person social gatherings of a bunch of chatters or forum participants are great.  Everyone already knows everyone else, the social dynamics are good, and people tend to be outgoing and have good communication skills.  But when two people get together it often ends badly for some reason.  When it gets down to just the two of you, the other person isn't always the same as on the chat/forum.  Best to take things very slowly.

Sorry it didn't work out, best of luck for the future. :)

Hook

Im 43 years young and Hubby thinks Ive lost my mind because I will tell my Sims   no I told you to go fix breakfast not clean the bathtub while your son is in it taking a bath or whatever else they can think to do at all the wrong times

I met my hubby online. we've been married for 4 years now. Still wonderful.
And yes, he is 10 months younger, thinks I am nuts for playing sims and I am 32 years old and started with Commodore64.

30...  and started playing computer games at the age of 8 on a commodore 64...  even youger if you count a really ancient console type thing that plugged into the TV - we are talking technology from the late 70s there!  I don't intend to ever stop...  my husband is 35 and also plays computer games, but can't stand the sight of my sims - he's more into far cry and things like that - we have to have our own separate computers otherwise we would drive each other nuts trying to play games and work on the same machine - that's a recipe for divorce in this house!

excuse my while I wander off to sneeze endlessly elsewhere - damn hayfever!

He's posting his hacks at MTS2; all of them apparently.

LOL, well, I'll bet there are a bunch of people who are glad you did resurface.

I'm easily as fascinated by the dynamics of internet communtiies as I am the Sims. (I'm a fader-away, btw, afraid I've done it a few times.  Pretty crappy thing to do to people you've gotten attached to  :-\ , but I don't do confrontations.)

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On the hubby topic, hubby thinks I am nuts re: The Sims, but hubby thinks I am nuts over quite a few things.  I can't think of any reason other than the part where I am nuts.  He tolerates me pretty well.

Ever since the advent of the internet, I'm wired 24/7.  My first computer game tracks all the way back to the original SimCity, but my obsessions aren't usually attached to games.  I find a pocket of civilization online and get into something with full gusto.  

Personally, I think it's no different than the lady down the block who gets into scrapbooking or something.  You've seen those women, right?  I don't understand filling your house with scrapbooking supplies and having weekly meetings so you can scrapbook with other people  ???, but their obsessive pursuits are quite normal in suburban society, unlike mine.  

One obsession for a few years was writing online.  Before blogging, I was "published" and even had a little teeny, tiny following 'cause I was kinda funny even if I wasn't the greatest writer in the world ....that morphed into becoming an online store reviewer, which was pretty interesting because some e-commerce sites started contacting me directly for input.  

Anyway, five years of that and one day I just didn't want to do it anymore, too much drama and conflicting personalities. I changed my online moniker  :o, which is pretty much like going into the witness protection program, once people know you.

But there's always something.  Last year I was an Amazon seller and eBayer.  Still have a room full of mailing supplies from that. And the husband puts up with it all.  Hugs to him!

(The Sims is quite neat.  Everything on just one little machine! No trips to the post office.)

That's why I have more in common with my 15 year old sister-in-law that anyone my own age. She bought me Makin' Magic for my birthday! ;)

I started Simming when my son (then 14) asked for The Sims for Christmas and Livin' Large for his birthday in January.  My kids and I had always played computer games together.  I used to play the old Sierra games (Kings Quest, Leisure Suit Larry) on my Tandy, and the kids would watch.  It went a long way to teaching them to type and spell, because the commands were on a parser interface -- had to be typed in, and worded in a particular way in order to work.

As hubby and I grew apart (he's a knowledge Sim who's low on playful points), I grew more involved in online communities and eventually met my sweetie that way (on the TS1 BBS, as a matter of fact).  Sweetie and I have been together 2 years now.  Our computers are in the same room, and we are often Simming simultaneously and saying, "Hey, look at this!."  Something I think the method of our meeting taught us, though, is to always make time to spend with our hands on each other instead of the keyboard (and I don't necessarily mean that in a sexual sense  :D ).  We end each day cuddled on the couch watching Futurama or Family Guy or something.

P

Very true, but it was a good thing in my case. I met my husband on IRC, in a channel for Neverwinter Nights. He was what I call a "jackass", constantly teasing and mocking everyone. I was attracted to that type of personality (and his English accent) and he was attracted to mine, so we decided to meet. Thankfully, his rudeness was just a façade and I found a sweet and romantic man underneath. Few months later, we were married and I moved to England. I got him into the Sims just last week when his computer broke and there was nothing to play but my games, bwahaha! It was that or Baldur's Gate and he was having none of the 2D animation, so Sims it was. He loves telling me what his elven romance sim has been up to--mainly shagging everything in sight. :P

Am I the only one who started on Intellivision?
I went from being one of those people who just didn't understand the whole internet obsession (my mom and my friends would tell me I just *had* to get an email account. I didn't understand. Why? I have a phone.). My mom would try to sell me on the joys of internet surfing. Again, I didn't get it. I have books. It wasn't until some of my old college friends started emailing each other that I got into the fun. I met my husband in college (I was a little sister to his fraternity) and I was really excited to hear from my old frat guy buddies again. Even if it meant learning how to turn on the computer.
That evolved into cautious exploration of the internet, and many panicky situations such as the time I thought it would be best not to tell my husband I had just performed an illegal operation and caused Explorer to shut down. I'd just stoically wait until the feds came to my door. I would call hubby into the office in a panic "Jay! The toolbar is running vertically up the screen! I screwed up! I'm so sorry!" . And I once accidentally signed up for AOL, when I only meant to get AIM. That was a really bad thing to do. And while instant messaging one of my old college friends, I actually had to call Jay in to ask what "Rawfmalowl" meant. Jay ever so patiently explained it was actually "roflmao".
My parents gave me my mom's old Thinkpad 600E, so I got brave and started figuring things out. That machine barely met the specs, but I was able to have all the sims1 eps on it. But it was sloooooow.
Funny, because now my mom and my friends call me asking for computer advice. I'm self-taught, thanks to that old ThinkPad. I've made so many mistakes, but managed to figure them out all by my little self. Now I have my new Sims2 compatible laptop, and it hasn't exploded. Yet.

Wow, you people are making me feel pretty young.  Only 25 here.

I started out on an Atari 2600 when I was about 6 or 7 years old.  Once I got a Nintendo and Super Mario Brothers it was all over for me.   ;D

A friend of my got me into TS2.  He's one of those giant computer geeks (Linux C programer and whatnot) with about five different computers in his house all sharing the same broadband connection and downloading movies, music, and pretty much anything else you shouldn't be downloading.  That's being said, he download TS2 and told me to come over to play it, so I did.

Shortly after I bought my own copy of TS2 (because I highly doubted that any expansions would work with a downloaded copy) and started posting some on the BBS.  Never really liked the place though, not only because of the idiots, but mostly because I felt like a 25 year old guy surrounded by a bunch of 12 year old girls.  Eventually I stumbled upon this place in search of these so called "hacks" to fix the bugs that were eating my game and the rest is history.

46. Soon to be 47... Ah me, where did my youth go?

Didn't really get into computers until the 90's when a 186 was THE best thing ever, and you didn't use Windows but DOS. Oh my, the games. Heheheh. Loading in cassettes (had a Commodore 64), and playing tennis because that was the best thing. As for the internet, I am so new to it you could mow me and use me for fodder.

Rofl at your description of your shall we say ineptness with the internet ;DI can navigate the internet but I am totally inept when it comes to figuring out how to use features on my computer

I completely agree that people need to be very careful about forming relationships with people they meet online, but I don't think meeting people online in and of itself is any different than meeting people at, say,  a bar.  The important thing is to take it OFFLINE as soon as possible. 

I met my husband online when I was 19.  We traveled in the same online communities and formed a friendship.  The moment our feelings for one another turned romantic, we started chatting on the phone.  At the time he lived in Ft. Worth and I in Atlanta, over 800 miles apart.  Two months after we started chatting on the phone, he flew out here to see me and the trip went wonderfully.  Six months after that, he uprooted from his home town and moved to an apartment outside of Atlanta to be with me and start a "real" relationship.  You know, one where we could actually go out to the movies and dinner and TOUCH one another.

Two and a half years later we were married and we're about to celebrate our third wedding anniversary this November.

I hate telling people how we met because they always look at me like I'm crazy and don't I know that he's probably not who he says he is and is just WAITING for the right time to murder me or break my heart?  (People have said this to me!  Recently, in fact!)   I'm no fortune reader, so who knows if we'll be together forever.  I do sure as hell know that if we ever divorce, it will have nothing to do with having met him online. 

How do you tell if he has an English accent in an IRC channel?

The way we write is particularly English in tone.  ;)

LOL no, we eventually voice chatted and then talked on the phone. :P

You did it right. :)  

As for telling people where y'all met, just make up the most outrageous story you can.  Once they've gotten past the shock, they'll be more receptive to the fact you met online. :)

Hook

I agree with everything you said.  I always hated telling people we met online because of what you said.  I've gotten some of those looks.  I know that our divorce was not because of how we met.  We each had issues and it could have happened if we had first met each other in person.  We both needed something emotionally we thought the other could give us.  I wasn't a complete person myself and I was looking to someone else to complete me.  He thought he could fix me and my problems, but I didn't just go along with his advice.  Those are the basic reasons it didn't work.  But even now that it's over, if I tell someone how we met, they attribute the marriage breaking up to our meeting online, and that isn't the case.

Hey! Another Atlantan! I live in Woodstock, just north of Atlanta. Grew up in May-retta.

Woo!  I moved to Kennesaw from MD when I was 14.  Moved to Vinings (I hated it - too snobby and overpriced) and now I'm in Duluth, which I *love*. 

When my husband moved here, he moved to Marietta. 

I like the Woodstock area a lot, but as both my husband and I work just inside the perimeter, there's no way on Earth we could live there. :)

No, I'm sure it'll have everything to do with the fact that neither of you has any taste and hook up with random people you meet online, without even a proper application and screening process. Let me know when so I can point and laugh at you.

My husband works in Mid-town for Turner Broadcasting. That's a fun commute!

Well, I was trying to keep my post brief, so I didn't detail the whole application and screening process ordeal.  His credit check came back okay, but his kindergarden teacher didn't like him very much.  Getting his bloodwork done without his knowledge was surprisingly easier than I thought it'd be.

I'm 30. (it's not right to see it written out there like that.)
I have loved to play games for as long as I can remember and actually own an original Pong upright that works. (although we never play it. what's the point.)
I have never met anyone on-line worthy of my precious RL time. (just kidding. they may be worthy but notheless i have never met up irl with an on-line aquaintance.)
The screening process is soooo important no matter where you met your SO.

So true. I chose my husband because he had 5 girlfriends when I met him. I thought he must have had some worthwhile qualities if he was that much in demand.

I'm 26 - almost 27 (sob - how much longer can I claim to be in my mid-twenties?).  We had an Atari when I was little (probably too little to actually play) and then got a Commodore 64 when I was about 6.  Within days I'd learnt how to put on my favourite game (BC Bill on cartridge).  I was also a big fan of Summer and Winter Games (around the 1984 Olympic Games, simulating them was an obsession of mine) but it took me a little longer to work out how to type LOAD and know when to press play on the tape deck.

And then my dad discovered BASIC programming magazines and would hog the computer, endlessly copying in these games but never playing them.

My little cousin got me into Sims1 last year and I quickly bought almost all of the expansion packs, minus Makin Magic, then when I finally got an updated computer I bought myself Sims 2.  And the rest is obsession history.

Hey, I know I responded right after you, rohina. I must have posted in the wrong thread, which would make me look like an idiot, being all random and stuff...
Where oh where did my little post go?

ROFL Brynne did you type it while under the influence of cough medicine? ;D

Oooh, computer nostalgia... makes me feel all warm and squooshy inside....

My first computer as a kid was a Spectrum, and it had a kick-ass 16K memory... I would spend HOURS typing in little programs (in BASIC, natch... those days pretty much marked the pinnacle of my ability to understand computers) and then I got an upgrade to 48K, AND THEN - ta dah!!! - a whole new computer, still a Spectrum but this time the 128K, which actually came with it's own built-in tape player, instead of having to bugger around hooking one up with my old one.

Ah, those were the days.... *stares meaningfully off into middle-distance, collects pension*

my first computer was a HP Pavillion with 63mb of Ram 5 years ago and I thoyght I had the state of the art model then LOL

My first computer was a commodore 64.  My first video game system was an atari with Pong.  I'm almost 36.  My hubby does not in any way understand the Sims and thinks it's stupid.  He's incredibly resentful of the time I spend playing and even the time reading here, and I don't post much because of time.  I did manage to get a 55 year old woman from church addicted to the sims too.   ;)

C

My first crack at a computer came in the form of a "Time" computer, I am not really sure you could call it a computer and I have looked all over for another one. It was more likely akin to a glorified calculator which you could input code into and get a dancing line or dot after hours upon hours entering in pages of this code that came with the little system. My step up was a Commador 64, that was when I started getting interested in games and rushed out to purchase an atari. A fews later I found myself working for Sun and a wannabe computer geek was born. I was their "receptionist" and had literally and encouraged all day to do nothing but learn how to use their system, oh and of course hack into other peoples computers and learn a little about encyption which was just starting out really, but that was just a side hobby of mine. I cheesed off the new office admin and found myself outted after I called the president to complain. Boy was I ever brazen back then...

now I just goof about building databases etc, but not for Sun.

Shame on you, corrupting church members, Chris!  :D

ROFL ;D

I will be 32 next month.  Yikes.  When I was a teen I never thought I'd live to see 27.  (The year 2000 - remember how big a deal that was?  The turn of the the century woooooo.)

The first computer I ever learned on was a Radio Shack TRS80, not so fondly referred to as "trash 80".  Our first home computer was an Atari 800  I believe, and up to that point we had been only playing with the Atari console.  I loved Kaboom.

My husband and I met online, through personals.  We have been together for 5 years now.  The ironic thing is that my first husband cheated on me with some chickie he met online.  I caught him, and he begged to come back, but the second time he did it I kicked his ass to the curb.  Can't believe he would have rather had a little checkout girl from walmart than such a beautiful and intelligent woman as myself.  Go figure   ;)

I was wondering where you've been, Chris!
I think we had an Atari 800 when I was a kid, too. Was that the one with the Pac Man game that put the regular Atari's Pac Man to shame? I was still embarrassed because it was so not cool to not have the usual Atari, like all my friends did. Kick-ass Pac Man or none.
I remember my dad bringing home an Apple IIc when I was about 12 or so. I could program it to make my name print all over the screen! Gasp! My programming knowlege still remains at that level, however. And we had this game called Zork. I played it for hours at a time. Don't remember much about it except that it was all text and no graphics. Some kind of puzzle, I think. Something about opening a mailbox, or going to the east side of a house...does anyone know what I'm talking about?

Here it is!
http://www.nomadgamer.com/archives/2005/04/zork_a_nomad_ga.php (http://www.nomadgamer.com/archives/2005/04/zork_a_nomad_ga.php)

Man, those were the days.

Oh mate!  ;D  I remember the panic & not knowing if something was serious or not.-The whole 'is it just what computers do or is the whole thing irretrievably broken dilemna'!

Commodore 64 was my first PC. Beer Belly Bert as I recall. I tried to teach myself programming from the accompanying book. Did alright up until about the 10th exercise. Couldn't get it to work. Never ocurred to me to skip it and try another. Gave up. Found out years later that there was a printing error in book, program would never work. Realised was stuck in rut in thinking and went & got an IT degree. :)

Now learning Java programming at 48yrs old.  :-\

Not scared of computers anymore now, am BOSS!

Our first computer was a Commodore Vic 20.   And I clung to my Amiga 500 until I absolutely had to have a computer that had software that was compatible with my co-author's PC.  (That was in 1997.)

My first computer was primarily a word-processor, but you could also run programs in CP/M+ on it.  (Brits and my fellow Aussies may remember the Amstrad PCW).  It had a whopping 256k memory and no hard drive!  I can remember playing a text game exploring a cave, and playing trivial pursuit with very simple green-on-black graphics.  Also remember buying magazines that had the code in basic for programs and coding them up, teaching myself some simple programming.

And I'm another simmer who won't be seeing 40 again - I'm 42 (until late next month).  I always hoped that at 42 I'd discover the answer to the 'great question of life, the universe and everything', even if I didn't know the question - no such luck I'm afraid.

I don't remember what my first computer was because I was 5 years old. All I know is I spent a lot of time playing some DOS games called Buzzard Bait and Jumpman. A few years later, I got Windows 95 and an internet connection as a birthday present. I spent most of my time designing and updating a web site for a horse club I found on AOL. I wasn't too interested in playing games because we had both a Sega and a Nintendo by then. I don't think I got into the Sims and PC gaming until I was in college. I annoyed my roommate by staying up until all hours playing Drakan: Order of the Flame. :D

my hubby is sso technologically impaired he cant even turn on the TV since its been hooked up to Dish network and the computer  baffles him completely. I watched him look for the on/off switch for  my computer for an hour last night after  he  helped me put in the RAM cards, I was ROFL at the sight of him looking all over the tower for a light switch apparatus.  ;Dhe wouldnt believe me when I told him where the power button was. after an hour he gave up I walked over pushed the power button and the computer instantly powered up. my hubby got mad and stormed off to another room declaring that for me to know that "I must spend far too much time on the computer"

As this seems to have got derailed into a "how old are you and what was your first computer?" thread, I'm 29 and my first computer was a BBC Master 128.

Now, Americans probably won't know what that is, but Acorn were a British computer company whose machines were popular all over Europe and in places like Australia. In the late 80s, pretty much every school in the UK had at least one BBC B or Acorn Electron computer. They were fantastic for schools, because they were basically indestructible. Special needs educators in particular loved them, because a large adult could have convulsions over one without hurting the computer at all! (This is an almost-direct quote, btw).

Acorns were always "serious" computers - they were aimed at schools, home users who wanted to learn to program, and people who wanted to run robots. BBC BASIC was a neat programming language, and you could write a sensible program without a single GOTO - we had the IF/THEN/ELSE construction and PROCedures, which were like mini programs running within the main program. As Acorns cost roughly twice what other home computers did, we never got much in the way of games. However, the games Tetris and Elite were both written initially for the BBC B. The Acorn Archimedes series, launched in 1989, was groundbreaking. The Arc was the first ever computer to use a Reduced Instruction Set Chip (RISC), and it showed. In 1990, my Arc (440/1, the top end) was between 4 and 10 times faster than a Windows 3.1 PC of comparable price.

Acorn themselves died, but the spin-off company ARM is going strong. ARM chips are in just about everything these days, including my Game Boy Advance SP - which has a spec roughly equivalent to that Archimedes 440/1 that I mentioned ::). Bearing in mind that my GBA SP is all of three inches in diameter and fits into my pocket, I feel old.

I'm 46, married 27 years to a 50 year old man who spent nearly 20 years as a miserable computer operator and now drives a big rig. At what time will the truck arrive in Cincinnati?

Oh wait. All those numbers...

He's living his second childhood through his ultimate dream-job, and I play Sims obsessively and "make toys" for the game. We're polar opposites, but exactly alike. Our kids are in their 20's and live here at home, and think they have the world's coolest parents. (They do; otherwise they'd be out on their asses by now.) Personally, I can't stand most people "my age," unless they're Simmers.

Ahh, computer nostalgia. I got my first "IBM clone" in 1985 or thereabouts ~ an 8088 with 64k of RAM and a 10MB hard drive, which I quickly swapped out for a 40MB. We had a C64, but I don't count that as a computer, since all I used it for was drawing pornographic ASCII graphics to scroll endlessly on a black & white portable t.v. that served as the monitor. The "clone" was a major step forward in graphics ~ Optix, an amber monitor, and a 9-pin dot matrix printer, OH MY!!!  ;D

Y'know what's sad, though. For what we paid for that old "clone," I could now buy an Alienware system that would make Sims2 run like a Pixar movie.

Isn't that the truth!

I think I paid $3000 for my first Apple computer that had no hard drive.  To run any programs, I had to keep switching floppy disks. "Insert Disk A", "Insert Disk B".

Don't remember the year, somewhere mid 80's, but $3K to me then was like $30K right now, I was that poor. 

Not sure exactly where I got the money....I think I robbed a bank.  Wanted a computer that badly.  :D

(it's was obsolete so fast.....   :'( .... I've never tried to be cutting edge again!)

We didn't pay quite that much for my first PC, but it was over $2k. We had to borrow the money from my parents, who didn't mind, as it meant my father got to go computer-shopping with me. He's a mainframe programmer geek from way back...but has unfortunately reached his level of incompetence with Win-XP.  :D (I find that hilarious, but I guess you had to be there.)

The last I heard, that old dinosaur ~ the PC, not my dad...although... ~ was still going strong, running basic accounting software for the charity shop we donated it to! These days, I'm lucky if I can make a system last four years before major problems start cropping up.

My (then)husband and I bought a top of the line Micron computer in 1995, it had a whopping 16 MB of RAM and of course, only used floppy disks. He worked for Micron and with his employee discount we paid $2,500 for it! I was terribly pissed off at the whole idea of paying that much for something we really didn't need and refused to even touch it, lol. About 6 months later, the hubby was out the door but he left the computer and it became my new best friend. I was a stay at home mom and that computer came in very handy when I had to type up a resume and search for work. I upgraded it at one point with more memory (32 MB, woot!) and a new HD when the old one died. I used the heck out of that thing until I finally got a new computer 6 yrs. later. We still have it; it sits out in the garage on a desk my (2nd) husband made for it, so he can play solitaire and work on MSword projects.

OMG.....I played that game oooooh sooooo long ago....one of my brother's friends had it on his computer and whenever we got the chance to go over to his house we would play for hours.....and hours.....it was so cool.....and not a damm picture/graphic during the whole game......only your imagination.....it was great.....oh and I will proudly admit that I join the ranks of the eldery here at MATY....at an awesome old age of 44!  And  what's with these husbands that think the sims are stupid.....my husband favorite line is " YOU play the sims more than you do me!"..... you guys can read into that any way you choose....lol....Tgdry6

My husband is actually awesome about my obsessions (his flaws are elsewhere ;)) He's played Sims2 a bit (played Sims1 as well) tho he doesn't really get into it (mostly building stuff). He might like the business EP enough to get involved again, so I'm looking forward to that. And let's me talk about it and even makes intelligent comments. The other day I was telling him how the oldest kid in my sim family had it hard as her parents were poor when she was little, so she didn't have the things that make it easier to learn (better beds, better food, less time on chores etc.) and he was telling me "how realistic is that game - even when it doesn't exactly mean to be." A whole conversation about societal ills among the poor and their representation in the Sims :) Pretty cool.

He even joined my (temporary) dance obsession cheerfully, which was pretty cool of him. For my birthday, he got me the CDs and book for Firefly (Serenity, my other obsession) and spent all day playing Tropico with me (his favorite game, so he's addicting me.) We also read together and share books (sometimes).

</pure idolization> Can you tell I've got 3 lightning bolts for my husband? It's that interests thing - nothing to do with zodiac signs or aspirations ;)

It shows.  ;D It's refreshing to hear someone else so in love with their spouse.

BTW, my husband has taken to referring to making love as "woo hoo." Now, that's acceptance!!  :D

my hubby hates anything to do with the sims LOL

So does mine. :D

If I even bring up The Sims, my husband does that stare-off-into-space thing that a sim does when he's bored with the subject of conversation. Sometimes he'll even stick his fingers in his ears and say "na na na na na na".

If I bring up the sims my dad gives me a lecture about how it's a waste of my time.

No, the lecture is the waste of your time.

Having neither husband nor partner of any variety, I only get lectures from my increasingly scathing daughters.  ::)

Pretty bad when your kids lecture you for playing computer games... :D

A few days before Uni came out, my husband and I were walking down the software aisle at Costco when he did a weird scoot shuffle sort of thing.  I asked him what he was doing, and got "nothing".  Peeked around him, and he was covering up the display of Sims 2.  He shook his head when I informed him that I already had it.  He really should have known better.

Innit. Sigh...

My husband used to roll his eyes and make snippy remarks about my "addiction" (as he like to call it). Then he realized how far my playing goes to reduce my stress, thus decreasing the possibility I'd slaughter him and the children in a perimenopausal hormonal rage. Considering what other moms do for stress therapy (shopping, crafts) the Sims is rather inexpensive in comparison. :)

...drinking.

Neat vodka with a valium chaser...

Will xanax suffice ?

Hell, babe, you gotta take your jollies where you get 'em.  ;D

Why, do you have some? :)
I agree.  I am so jealous. :(  My mom used to play sims 1 when I introduced her to it,  but now she says they (the Sims) are evil because they are too addictive and they are taking over my life.   :o  So I can't even talk to her about them anymore, when I wanted to tell her all the new stuff in Sims 2.

Yes. Doesn't my calm demeanor give that away?

No, not when you're throwing shovels and sticks and popcorns all over the freakin' place. :D

The popcorn and sticks thing in that other thread had me laughing until I was gasping. :D Brynne, you are awesome.

Aww, thanks. Wish everyone felt that way...

I am sooo disappointed.  All this talk about early video games and not one mention of Leisure Suit Larry and the Lounge Lizards game?  Where were all you people back in the 80's???  A friend of mine loaded it on my computer at work and there was some key I could hit that would bring up a spreadsheet so you looked like you were really working.  Or maybe that was an edit to my puter by my friend - not sure.

I started with Pong, moved up to Commodore 64 and then bought my very own PC with a 5-/14" disk drive and everything.  I have been playing forever.  Am 50 for 2 more weeks.

I remember some DOS games I had having a Boss mode, like you could hit Esc or something and you'd get a spreadsheet or something.  Unfortunately, it never looked like something I'd actually be working on so that didn't work.  But it was a neat little feature. 

Iwas having babies the real variety not the sim variety

I actuallly *used* the BOSS mode once.  I was showing a group of coworkers some game when one of the bosses started walking towards us.  I hit the boss key at the last second, just for fun.  He didn't buy it. :D 

The guy had absolutely no sense of humor, altho the rest of us were amused.  If he'd stuck around I would have showed him the game too.  He didn't get pissed, but didn't get the joke, either.

Hook

LOL, Hook.

Oh, you all are just too funny!

I was thinking (back to the original topic) if that poor fellow might have the same problem my sister does.  She has something called Borderline Personality Disorder.  I'll admit I'm not as clear on what that means as I'd like to be but it definitely results in some very interesting almost dillusional moments, like the time a couple of days ago she told me she'd done more work on a particular project than our other two sisters, me and my husband combined.  Never mind the fact that the other four of us (plus my two daughters) have been working on this since last February and she started somewhere around August.  And never mind the fact not only has my DH provided a good 75% of the physical labor involved AND 75% of the money needed to finish it.  Granted, during the past few months she's done a huge lot of the hardest work, but like I said, she only barely got on board!

So, maybe it's more a case of skewed perspective as a result of mental illness (which has a good dose of immaturity as a side effect) rather than actual immaturity?  I dunno, just my thoughts.

Hmmm.  I think I hear a straight jacket calling me!  ;D 

One of the peer support tutors sent me an email, he signed off with the words, 'Woo Hoo'. I told him what woo hoo means in simlish, now he signs his emails, 'Bob UsedToWooHoo Jones'.

ROFL now that is hysterical witch thanks for the laugh ;D

My first computer used a tape recorder. It would take 20 minutes for the adventure game Twin Kingdom Valley to load. And, y'know, I wasn't even any good at it.


The partner I live with knows all the famous names from More Awesome Than You. I read out amusing posts while we're sitting together reading our respective web forums. He even knows all the Sims 2 community politics! :D When I told him that TwoJeffs had moved over to MATY, he said "Ah, so he found a new buttocks to host his mods?". I nearly died laughing.

Reminds me of something Inge said in the chat the other day:

Oh, that Inge! LOL!

LOL.  I want to see those PMs!  I'll bet they are even funnier than the crap posted here.

Well it got repetitive in the end so I asked him to stop trying to contact me, which he seems to have respected.  So I think I'll let sleeping dogs lie...

If it turns out the VS site policy allows blatant deliberate copying of other people's existing hacks in order to avoid having to link to another site, then that would be a separate matter.

You should read this link to: (Gali's trying to get a link here to maty)

http://www.variousimmers.net/vsimforum/showthread.php?t=2661

Oh my lord. That woman is not only insane, she's illiterate as well. I never read anything at VS before you guys all started talking about your buttocks, so I'm not invested in the dispute, it just amuses me. I have a question, though: why has it apparently taken so long for everyone to figure out how wacky the less awesome one is?

Of course JMP figured it out first, because he is so awesome.

I want to post a reply to Rentech and tell her that is a bunch of bull hockey, but I'm not brave enough.   :o

Well if you do, it will be the last thing you post there and you'll spend the rest of your days walking the earth as one of the not-banned

That's what I was afraid of...I'm not quite ready to go there yet. :)

Like a vs zombie. You're banned...or are you? *spooky music plays*

yep return of the night of the living dead that old horror film is an apt description

I spent some time there last night, after the Vamp Cat thing, looking for a way to delete my account. Couldn't find it. Perhaps I should PM Rentech and ask her to do it for me.  ;)

I think the saddest thing is the type of people who are coming in as the replacements - looks to me like they are really scraping the barrel here!

51 here.

Oh, yeah, I STILL have my LSL disks around here somewhere, I even got the whole set on CD a couple of years ago when it was offered.  My ex-husband and I started with Pong back in the 70's, then got a TI handheld programmable and moved up to the big time with a TI-99/4A in '82.  A whopping 16k of memory.  No disk drive, had to use a cassette, and that was how I learned to write programs.  Got a C64 to learn to write programs for it (we had a small software company and were selling our stuff at trade shows and through the mail).   First IBM clone in '86.

Started playing adventure games - text only, had to make sure you typed the right command to get all the info for the room you were in.  Maps, maps, maps.  Somewhere in there we got an Atari game console (for the kids  ;)).  Nintendo.  Playstation, and now PS2.

I have a CD rack full of computer games.  My favorite was Sierra's "King's Quest" series.  I got the Myst 10th anniversary series for Christmas last year (never played it before, but always wanted to.)  I've played Myst but haven't gotten through Riven yet.  Got addicted to TS2, which I also got for Christmas, and haven't been able to tear myself away long enough to get back to my first love, adventure games, let alone programming.

Yep, computer games are for kids.  They're what keep us young!

No, no, clearly what you have to do is ask her not to ban you. Or perhaps ask her if you are banned.

Oh look, lambchops!

reg, so there's no way to delete a VS account?  Damn.  I may PM Rentwit and VampCat after all.

"BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"

Do you think that would do it?  ;D

here come the VS sheep 

Edit: Posted in wrong thread, sorry.  Damn, I'm full of mistakes tonight.  :-\

ROFL the thats me all the time ;D

Oddly enough, I spent some time last night looking for a way to delete my account at VS. No luck. I was thinking of asking Inge if she knew how. All my PMs were deleted, both the historical and the new, hardly seems worth the bother of having an account, I don't imagine I'll be there much.

Fuck off, twit. See, we can say that here because there's no psycho-hypocrite running this site. Psycho, yes. But never a hypocrite.

What Reg said. As well as my own obsvervation - then why in the hell are you reading and posting here then, hmm? Crawl back in your caps locked hole.

I was Just over there looking for the same thing and it doesnt seem right to me that you cant delete your own account. seems a  bit odd to me I signed up but  there is no way for me to  leave the membership roster on my own. thats the first forum Ive ever Joined that wont let a member have a way to delete membership.Ive been on others and how long I stayed a member was entirely up to me. even on the BBS you can have your membership deleted if you no longer want to be a member.

Welcome to MATY, twojeffs  ;D

You and me both... In fact, the 80's seems to be a nappy/breast feeding blur of complete exhaustion. And they're all grown up and mocking now.  ;)

Quite frankly, after reading this thread I've come to the unfortunate conclusion this person is a nutter (no spears to be chucked because of non-pc-edness, ta!), seems semi-literate, and has delusions of grandeur. The latter is no real issue, I guess, but the complete randomness and BS leaves you feeling a tad concerned.

17 here...Now I feel massively young!

I dont admit to playing the sims in real life - or creating the sims attic either!  Pity one girl had to mouth off about it, and tell many members of my grade about it....grr!

First started playing computer games when I was pretty young - not sure what age.  Had an old crappy laptop since around 1999 or so, give or take a year - the only way to turn it off was to hit fn+power button, and wait.  Used to love playing lemmings and treasure mountain on the old computer :)

Only person i've met off the internet in real life is Ness - yes, the one who has already posted in this thread.  It's a little hard to meet up with anyone else, as much as I would like to, because they're usually on a different continent...

Hiya Hobbsee!  Glad to see you here.  Oh - And while we're on the subject of age, I'm an old fogey of 38.

Hey Torkle!  Good to see you here also?  What have you been creating lately?  I'm thinking of some more recoloured fires, for ts2 this time, if I get brave enough...

*sigh*

just like old times...  :P

Ha! well you see we ARE the first generation of gamers, you'll find us sat in the corner at the pub in years to come saying things " Argh when I was a young whippersnapper like you we had 128k spectrums and an Amiga 500, those were the days... they don't make 'em like they used to...."  Then we'll wander of in a senile daze :lol:  My hubby got me into compters, he's awesome (I wub my hubby too) and he understands my obsession as he's totally obsessed with Quake.  Zork was excellent, you can download it as freeware now, it was an RGP, I had all the series.

BTW I'm 36, Winter will be back I've been playing the Sims 1 & 2 long enough to have seen others like him come and go.

128K Spectrums?  I'm not sure what my first was, but when we got a 128K I thought it was amazingly advanced compared to the other one.  I think the first was 64K, it was one of those tiny things with the rubber pads that needed a tape-recorder to work.  The 128K was SO advanced it had a BUILT-IN tape-recorder - WOW!!!.  I still have at least two of the 64K ones (and the tape-recorders), plus 2 or 3 12i8K ones, although I don't think any of them actually work.  Also have all my old Spectrum games - in fact, I even have some of them on my other p.c. - found a site that has more or less all of them converted to PC format and available for free download.  Was absolutely AMAZING to be able to play my all-time favourite Lords of Midnight again.  The graphics seemed SO advanced then.  In fact, I think now I am going to have to transfer the game over onto this PC and play it again ...

Well, I see that I am in really good company, age-wise.  :)  I'm 36 also, Fae. 

But I'm still older than Brynne and the Nanny with bladder-control issues.   ;)

Oooh.  Ultima.  I had forgotten about that game.  I tried Myst but really couldn't handle the limited dimensions.  I found it frustrating.  I'm pretty sure I played that on PC.  Might have been a PS2 game. 

Loved Lara Croft's Tombraider games for PS1 and 2, but all those games have gotten so polished that they give me motion sickness!  First game it happened with was Wolf on PC.  I never could play any Bond games on PS2 with my son, or even watch.  It's very frustrating.  I now play only games that don't move too fast.  Maybe I'll try some meds...I feel so old now!

Oh, and I was having RL babies too.  In '75, '76, '82, '85, and '93.  Got to escape somehow. 

I remember when PONG was cutting edge technology    :'(   :-\   :'(

I don't remember it being any sort of technology, I just remember sitting on the lounge room floor playing it against my dad on Atari when I was about 3...

Can't remember who won though... ;)

for all you younglings out there that dont know about the 'classics', check out

an example of early gaming at its best (http://www.i-mockery.com/shorts/white-water/)

 :o   :D   :o

My dad was always a computer nerd.  I inherited a Commodore64 when I was...12? Loved that thing.  I can remember my dad buying a Tandy one day and saying "It's got 8MB of RAM.  You'll NEVER need more than that!"  :D Uh huh..I still have that old Tandy upstairs in my closet though.




Ultima.  Don't even get me started! It was fabulous.  I started playing it when Ultima 6 came out and was a faithful fan until UO was about 4 years old and it was nothing like it should have been.  The NPC's had schedules! If you stood in the shops you could watch them.  The bakers made bread! The tailors made cloth!  Everything was interactive.  *sigh*  Origin was eaten by the beast that is EA shortly before or after UO came into being. 

If you are interested, a fan-created remake of Ultima 5 using the Dungeon Siege engine is set to come out by Christmas. http://www.u5lazarus.com/ (http://www.u5lazarus.com/)

If you're an UO fan, do you know Raph Koster (the head dragon or whatever the Ultima folk called him, we called him Ptah) then? I played (and "modded") on Legendmud which was where Raph was before he got eaten by the "they'll pay me" bug ;) Actually I remember one of his early interviews regarding how Legend (and muds) were set-up and how that would be incorporated into UO... might even have that saved around somewhere still. It's kinda neat to have been around at the beginning.

Our first game console was a second-hand Sears Video Arcade ("Ooh, bowling!"), which was almost identical to that Intellivision model. I blame it for my having to wear bifocals now.  :P